RE: [css3-lists] marker-side vs. marker-direction

[fantasai:] 
> But I think this isn't quite what we want: it doesn't address the base
> directionality of the marker. If the marker is associated with the list,
> not the list item, then its base directionality also needs to be taken
> from the list, and not the list item. Otherwise any leading/trailing
> punctuation may wind up in the wrong order. So it isn't a question of the
> marker's "side" so much as its "direction". In which case maybe the
> property should be 'marker-direction: match-self | match-parent'.
> 

Fwiw match-self makes no sense to me; if the thing has no direction and needs
to get it from somewhere else it seems odd to ask it to 'match itself'.

Why is match-item/match-list bad? These are the very terms you use to explain
this in your paragraph. I'm not sure being more abstract is helpful in this case.